The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 107

When the Barmecide had done rubbing his hands, he raised his voice, and cried, "Set food before us at once, we are very hungry."

Who acts: Barmecide, we · What happens: do, rub, raise, cry, be · To what, where: hands, voice, Set food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barmecide, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 done	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Barmecide	det
3	Barmecide	Barmecide	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 done	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 raised	advcl
6	rubbing	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 done	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rubbing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 raised	nsubj
11	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 voice	nmod:poss
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raised	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 raised	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 food	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 food	punct
19	Set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 food	amod
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obl
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 cried	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 once	case
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 cried	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hungry	punct
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 hungry	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 hungry	cop
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 hungry	advmod
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 raised	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 hungry	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	the Barmecide				tree rules
2	rub	gerund	the Barmecide not said here	Barmecide's hands			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	raise	past	Barmecide	Barmecide's voice			tree rules
4	cry speech: express	past	Barmecide not said here	Set food	before us		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before we=Location
5	is in a quote	present	we			hungry property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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